A beautiful, innocent girl comes home

Her coffin draped in the national flag, the first body of an Australian killed in the Bali bombings returned yesterday.

The remains of Angela Golotta arrived at Adelaide airport accompanied by grieving relatives. The 19-year-old's body was the first of more than 100 expected to be repatriated in coming weeks.

Ms Golotta, who would have turned 20 last Thursday, was dancing in the Sari Club on the Kuta Beach tourist strip when the terrorist bomb exploded.

She had been on holiday with family members including her father John, mother Tracey, her brother Michael and his girlfriend, Jasmin Bos.

Leaving Ms Golotta at the club, they left early because they were planning a whitewater rafting expedition the next morning.

Her parents had told her: "Don't stay out too late, now."

She had been dancing with Sturt footballer Joshua Deegan when the bomb detonated. Mr Deegan also died.

Ms Golotta's parents identified their daughter's body by the distinctive handmade necklace she was wearing.

Her father John's grief was overwhelming, his pain touching the heart of every parent watching the news that night.

Shaking and sobbing he said: "She was a beautiful, innocent girl, she had never done anything wrong in her whole life. Things like this don't happen to people like us."

Mrs Golotta, who was back at their hotel when the bomb went off, said: "We heard the big explosion and then there was a second explosion. I said to my husband 'Go to Angela'. I knew it was the Sari Club, I knew she was dead."

Angela's father and brother raced to the scene. They tried to pull one girl from the flames but to no avail.